Arts District (And Area) Notes *

Photo: Little Tokyo and the Arts District taken from City Hall, February 2009. VFaL.

The decaying 6th Street Bridge sees its future. Recommendation were made the city, and a Boyle Heights resident is not 'wowed.' [blogdowntown] More comments from unsatisfied people [curbedla]

Maybe that will be one of the stories that goes in Cornerstone Theater's new play about the Los Angeles River. Want to act? There's still time. Auditions are being held at Cornerstone February 21st and 22nd, as well as Wednesday, February 18, at Elysian Valley Recreation Center. [VFaL] + [Cornerstone]

New York Knicks first pick in the 1947 NBA draft was Wat Misaka. A documentary about the first Asian American professional hoopster is being screened at the Japanese American National Museum on Sunday at 2pm. [JANM] + [Little Tokyo Unplugged]

From the brash Colbert, we move on to a more genteel editorial POV. The New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl writes " . . .I’m bored by the kerfuffle’s rote recurrence, with its all but scripted lines for plaintiff and defendant alike." [Hope and Glory]